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Kentucky beats Morehead State 75-59

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky freshman Eric Bledsoe scored 24points while starting in place of John Wall, and the fourth-rankedWildcats opened the John Calipari era with a 75-59 win overMorehead State on Friday night. Patrick Patterson added 20 points - including his first career3-pointer - to go with 12 rebounds, and Darnell Dodson scored 15points as Kentucky (1-0) pulled away in the second half. Kenneth Faried led Morehead State (0-1) with 17 points, but thedefending Ohio Valley Conference champions couldn't keep up evenwith Wall sitting on the bench. The highly touted recruit sat out as part of an NCAA suspensionfor accepting improper benefits from his AAU coach. He's expectedto play Monday against Miami (Ohio). Not that Kentucky needed Wall in the second half, as Bledsoedazzled a raucous Rupp Arena crowd with a series of breathtakingshots. Still, there were plenty of difficulties for the Wildcats, whonever trailed after the game's opening minutes but struggled to putaway the Eagles. Calipari stressed there would be growing pains asKentucky got used to the dribble-drive offense that he used withgreat success at Memphis - and he wasn't kidding. The Wildcats turned it over 24 times, made just four of 193-pointers and seemed to be indecisive while trying to decidewhether to take an open shot or get to the basket. Kentucky led 33-25 at the half and as the Wildcats slogged theirway through the opening minutes of the second, the Eagles appearedto flirt - albeit briefly - with following in the footsteps of VMIand Gardner-Webb, small schools who pulled big upsets at Rupp. Those losses came under former coach Billy Gillispie, who wasreplaced by Calipari, now the highest paid coach in the country. Hewas brought in to return the blue bloods to greatness, and althoughhe said before the game he wouldn't be surprised if the Wildcatsopened 0-5, there was little doubt how much his first night as thecoach of college basketball's all-time winningest program meant. He stomped, he pleaded, he cajoled. He called a 30-secondtimeout after Faried dunked to pull the Eagles within 52-39 withabout 9 minutes left, and slammed his fist a couple of times whileurging his team to go play ball. It worked. Bledsoe, almost an afterthought given all the hype surroundingthe supremely talented Wall, wasted little time proving there'smore than one freshman guard on the team who can be a blur when theball is in his hands. During one sequence Bledsoe fed a streaking Patterson for alay-up, then followed a few moments later with a breathtakingcoast-to-coast dash for another easy basket. His best moment came later, when he knifed into the lane,absorbed contact and flipped the ball over his head with his backto the basket. The ball bounced off the rim several times beforefalling through the net. The sellout crowd roared its approval, and Bledsoe kept them ontheir feet with another assist to Patterson on Kentucky's nextpossession. He later hit a fadeaway from 17 feet while falling onhis backside, one of his few missteps. Bledsoe walked off the floor to a standing ovation with 1:41left and received some love from Wall. The two are expected to playalongside each other when the Wildcats play the RedHawks on Monday,part of a lineup that did little to dampen the high expectationsset out by one of the country's most demanding fan bases.

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